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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [190r] (384/739)
The record is made up of 1 volume (367 folios). It was created in 1898. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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No. 169.
P achenau A kbaba, via
Authority — K ing ; "W ood (1890).
No.
of
stage.
DisiAircsi
IN MILES.
Bbmaeks.
Names of stages.
[nterrae-
diate.
Total.
1
B ekendi
26
26
From Pachinar to Akbaba there are two roads j
the one via Karza and Mazeran ; and the other
via Mula Ali and Bekendi. Of the two
routes, tbat of the Xarza is generally followed,
not less on account of its being the better route,
than that of its being the post road.
The roads divide within 400 yards of Pachinar,
the Karza one going to the left up the pass,
and the Bekendi one up the bed of a torrent, a
tributary of the Safed liud, which it joins below
Pachinar.
Again, in 1887, a road was made from Pachinar
to Bekend. Shortly after its construction, the
rains swept away the whole construction. The
road was never rebuilt, as what now exists of the
former one is merely a track, which caravans
occasionally follow when the Karza is blocked
with snow.
This track keeps to the bed of the torrent for the
first nine miles, as far as a small village, called
Mula Ali. Supplies to a very limited quantity
are procurable here-, but the houses are uninhabi
table, except by Persians.
For about the next two miles the road keeps along
the side of the mountains, and then again des
cends into the torrent bed. The road gradually
keeps ascending, is rough and very bad going for
the next 12 miles, keeping in a south-easterly
direction.
At about 12 miles from Mula Ali, the torrent
splits in two, one coming from the south-east and
the other from the north-east for a short distance,
and then almost north-west. The former is the
Hamadan route, and the latter the Bekendi
one.
It would seem as if one was marching back on a
parallel road, separated only by a mountain, for
at least two miles. The stream then takes an
easterly direction. Before reaching this point
the road goes through a very narrow gorge in the
mountains, so narrow in fact that a mule with a
good^load could just get through. On either
side there is sheer perpendicular rock of from two
to three hundred feet. This gorge or cut is about
half a mile long; on emerging from it the road
comes out on the open, and keeps in an easterly
direction into Bekendi.
The whole distance from Pachinar to Bekendi is
about 26 miles, seven hours' marching.
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898).
The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-247) in Persia starting from Russian territory and extending south as far as a line drawn from Karmanshah [Kermānshāh] south-eastwards through Burujird [Borūjerd], Isfahan [Eşfahān] and Yazd to Karman [Kermān], and thence north-east to Khabis [Khabīş] and Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn].
The information given for each route comprises:
- number of route;
- place names forming starting point and destination of route;
- authority and date;
- number of stage;
- names of stages;
- distance in miles (intermediate and total);
- remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, agriculture, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).
An appendix within the volume (folios 356-359) and two separately-stored sets of loose sheets (containing routes numbers 77 (a) and 140-A, folios 363-369) give information too late for incorporation in the body of the work.
The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for maps. These consist of an index map showing the limits of each of the three sections of Routes in Persia (folio 2) and an index map to the routes in Section III (folio 361). There is also a fold-out map of the route from Seistan [Sīstān] to Mashad on folio 232.
An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.
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- 1 volume (367 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates on the last page of the loose supplementary sheets (found in the small grey folder within the main folder); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains a printed pagination sequence.
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